From: devet@win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) Subject: Re: GCC 2.2.2d, lib41, and Jump 4.1, bootable root disk Date: 3 Oct 1992 19:45:01 GMT
In article <BvILCz.M56@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) writes:
> I got bootable disk for linux 0.97.6 kernel and all the GCC 2.2.2d,
>lib4.1, jump4.1 stuff from tsx-11.mit.edu site. When it went to install
[...]
>file from 0.97.1. When I run the script again, it runs and asks me the
>387 stuff, suddenly some error messages appear saying that "chmod, chown
>couldn't some directory or files, then nearly all the command couln't
>be used. I check the /usr, /etc, /usr/bin..., all command permission
>became -rw-r-r, no execute flag. Since I couln't find what was the original
[...]
Exactly the same happened to me. I didn't have some directories the script
expected me to have and it removed execute permissions and setuid-bits from
all programs in /bin and /usr/bin!
>Is there something wrong in my installation? Is there anything wrong in
>lib-4.1.sh script?
The script is not very robust. It does cd <dir> without checkin whether the
directory exists. Maybe HLU can fix it.
>chenmin
Arjan